Language & Literature

ISBN: 9780674055889
Published by : Harvard University Press
Readers of Herodotuss Histories are familiar with its reports of bizarre portents, riddling oracles, and striking dreams. But Herodotus draws our attention to other types of signs too, beginning with human speech itself as a coded system that c... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780801894480
Published by : Johns Hopkins University Press
The Birth of Comedy brings together a wealth of information on the first three generations of Western comedy. Authors are presented in chronological order, whilst additional chapters contain translations of texts relating to comedy at dramatic ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780715638958
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
These essays examine expressions of emotion within genres of Greek and Roman literature. They ask which emotions specific genres were designed to produce, and how, within genres, emotions were categorised according to gender. Subjects include s... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780715639139
Published by : Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd.
Aeschylus' 'Suppliants' dramatises the myth of the fifty daughters of Danaos, who flee Egypt and come to Argos as suppliants, trying to escape forced marriage to their Egyptian cousins. It was long considered to be the earliest surviving trage... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199546510
Published by : Oxford University Press
This collection of studies presents a variety of perspectives on Aegina, famous for its Temple of Aphaia, its status as the home of many of the patrons of Pindar and Bacchylides, and the expulsion of its inhabitants by the Athenians at the begi... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780195339369
Published by : Oxford University Press
'Nympholepsy' - being seized by a nymph or goddess - is a fairly common topos in Ancient Greek poetry, often representing the moment of poetic inspiration. It can also have a religious dimension, as an encounter with the divine that leads to th... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199590070
Published by : Oxford University Press
This study of the Iliad by one of the greatest living Hellenists sets out its argument in no uncertain terms: the Oralist reading of the Homeric poems is wrong and the Unitarian approach to them is to be favoured. The poet of the Iliad compo... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674996625
Published by : Harvard University Press
This new Loeb edition, the most extensive selection of the fragments available in English, presents, over its three volumes, the work of fifty-six poets, including Cratinus and Eupolis. For each poet and play there is an introduction, brief not... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780674996632
Published by : Harvard University Press
This new Loeb edition, the most extensive selection of the
fragments available in English, presents, over its three volumes,
the work of fifty-six poets, including Cratinus and Eupolis.
For each poet and play there is an intr... .... Learn More